OpenSTV version 2.4.0 (http://www.OpenSTV.org/)

Loading ballots from file ballots (8).blt.
Ballot file contains 4 candidates and 479 ballots.
No candidates have withdrawn.
Ballot file contains 479 non-empty ballots.

Method Options:
  Title -- Mature/Part-time Students' Officer
  Seats -- 1
Counting votes using ERS97 STV.

 R|RON                        |ULZIISUREN,  ERDENECHIMEG  |DUFFY,  HELEN              |ALAYO ARNABAT,  JIM        |Exhausted                  |Surplus                    |Threshold                  
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 1|                      56.00|                      73.00|                     229.00|                     121.00|                       0.00|                       0.00|                     239.50
  |---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  | Count of first choices. The initial quota is 239.50. No candidates have surplus votes so candidates will be eliminated and their votes transferred for the next round.
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 2|                           |                      79.00|                     233.00|                     122.00|                      45.00|                      16.00|                     217.00
  |---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  | All losing candidates are eliminated. Count after substage 1 of 1 of eliminating RON. Transferred votes with value 1.00. Since no candidate has been elected, the quota is reduced to 217.00.
  | Candidate DUFFY,  HELEN has reached the threshold and is elected.

Winner is DUFFY,  HELEN.